[AISWorld] CFP-Crowdsourcing and Digital Workforce in the Gig Economy Minitrack @HICSS 2021

[Nancy Deng]

[AISWorld] CFP-Crowdsourcing and Digital Workforce in the Gig Economy Minitrack @HICSS 2021

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences- HICSS-54 (January 5-8, 2021, Hyatt Kauai, Hawaii)
Mini-track: Crowdsourcing and Digital Workforce in the Gig Economy

Track: Internet and the Digital Economy



Scope

Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed services and content by soliciting voluntary contributions in the form of an open call from a large network of individuals rather than from an organization's employees or suppliers. For organizations, crowdsourcing provides an online marketplace, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk and Clickworker, to tap into the labor and intelligence of the crowd.



Studies on the technical systems and collective intelligence are informative, but our understanding of the crowdsourcing phenomenon cannot be complete without a comprehensive understanding of the crowd itself, the work made available on the digital platform, and its institutional, regulatory and societal impacts. Thus, this minitrack calls for research on the following three critical aspects of crowdsourcing:



Topics

Topics on crowdsourcing, crowd workers and digital workforce include, but are not limited to:

*Crowd worker participation and motivation

*Crowd worker community

*Emerging digital professions and professional development

*Employment relations in crowdsourcing

*Ethical issues in managing the digital workforce

*Global workforce in the crowdsourcing

*Psychological aspects of digital workplace (e.g., Technostress)

*Skill development and career pathways of digital workforce



Topics on work design and crowdsourcing work environment include, but are not limited to:

*Crowdsourcing for microtasking

*Task design for crowd engagement

*Crowdsourcing contest design

*Institutional practices and policies for crowdsourcing

*Management and practice of work in hyper-digital environments

*New work routines and future work design

*Regulatory challenges of crowdsourcing



Topics on gig work and gig workers in the gig economy include but are not limited to:

*Gigs and task design

*Gig worker motivation

*Employment relations in the gig economy

*Community effects of a distributed digital workforce

*Job and career opportunities in the gig economy

*Organizational and regulatory challenges in the gig economy

*Psychological well-beings of the gig workers

*Work-life balance of the gig workers



Fast track journal publication opportunity:
Authors of accepted papers will be offered an opportunity to submit their extended versions for consideration for fast-track publication in:

-- Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce (JOCEC) Special Issue on Crowdsourcing and Gig Economy



Important Dates

June 15, 2020:              Paper Submission Deadline (11:59 pm HST)
August 17, 2020:            Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
September 4, 2020:        Deadline for A-M Authors to Submit Revised Manuscript for Review

September 22, 2020:      Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication
October 1, 2020:            Deadline for at least one author to register for HICSS-54

January 5-8, 2021:          HICSS-54 at Hyatt Kauai, Hawaii


Minitrack Co-Chairs

Nancy Deng (Primary Contact) |ndeng at csudh.edu

Sara Moussawi | smoussaw at andrew.cmu.edu

Joseph D. Taylor | joseph.taylor at csus.edu



https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-54/internet-and-the-digital-economy/#crowdsourcing-and-digital-workforce-in-the-gig-economy-minitrack

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